Bowl with wrist support



Aug. 21,1928. 1,681,569

.1. BRUECK v BOWL WITH WRIST SUPPORT Filed Oct. 14, 1927' ATTORNEY wise disturbing the bowl.

UNITED, STATES? PATENT oFF c .iosnrn BRUECK, or NEW Yemen. Y.

BOWL WITH WRIST SUPPORT.

Application filed October 14, 1927. Serial No. 226,085.

My invention relates to bowls of a'type suitable for use by physicians, surgeons, chiropractors, manicurists, barbers and the like, and also adapted for service as finger bowls upon or in connection with dining tables. a

More particularly stated, I provide the bowl with a rail ext-ending radially from it and carrying a suitable base for engaging the surface upon which the bowl rests, the supporting rail being adapted to support the vwrist of the person using the bowl, the rail with its base being so fashioned asto maintain while in use agood bracing effect so that the user of the bowl can lean heavily upon therail, without overturning or other- One of the chief objections to the use of asinall bowl for purposes of the general kind here contemplated is, that the person using the bowl is likely to become careless in the use thereof, and to inadvertently cause the sameto rock orturn over, thereby sp1ll--' ing the water or other liquid contents of the bowl.

I seek by my invention to avoid this trouble, or at least to reduce it to a minimum; so that a person in using the bowl may exercise considerable freedom in the use of his hand or hands, without undue danger of upsetting the bowl. By this arrangement the operator or other person using the bowl can give closer attention to the business inhand, and can also engage freely in conversation, without the necessity of constantly bearing in mind the danger of upsetting the bowl.

Reference is made to the accompanying drawing forming a part of this specification, and in which like referencecharacters indicate like parts throughout all of the figures.

Figure 1 is a plan View of my improved bowl with its support for the wrist.

Figure 2 is a vertical section on the line 22 Figure 1, looking in the direction indicated by the arrows. I

Figure 3 is a section on the line 33 of Figure 1, looking in the direction indicated by the arrows.

A bowl appears a4, and is provided with an annular head 5, serving as a base whereby it is partially supported.

Connected with the bowl 4, and in this particular instance integral with it, is a rail" and integral therewith area pair of feet 8,

8 which serve to support the outer end of the rail. The two feet 8, 8 which are spaced apart as shown in Figure 3, and the annular bead 5,together constitute a so called threepoint suspension; by means of which the device, when resting upon a substantially fiat surface, is always in stable equilibrium. Vdith a three-point suspension there can be no rocking 1notion; or at least all rocking motion reduced to a minimum.

The rail 6 is provided with an upper surface 9 which is slightly concave. That is, it has a concave-cylindrical form, as indicated in Figure 2. I I

The surface 9 is thus of proper conformity to be engaged'bya-persons wrist; and this in practice is true wheth'erthe wrist is bare or carries a'cull'ora sleeve.

The device as a hole rests upon any convenient flat'surface. Owing to the fact that the supporting feet 8, 8, are spaced widely apart, and to the further fact that by virtue of the concavity of the surface (1 the means position of the wrist can be rather low, there need be but little chance for the bowl to be upset, or for any part connected 'ith the bowl to be (he; placed by any little haphazard cause, such an accidental twist of the wrist, or by merely turning the wrist or the hand flOlllOllO conventional position into another.

In instances where the device is used by a chiropractor for work upon the feet, the sole of the foot can be rested upon the surface 9, so that the toes overhang the bowl.

The use of the device by nianicurists may be readily understood from the foregoing description, the wrist being rested upon the surface 9, and the hand and finger to be operated upon thus overhanging or resting within the bowl.

My device is well adapted for use as a finger bowl, say upon sea-going vessels and upon dining cars. The passenger having been served with a meal, the finger bowl till is m

is brought in by the waiter and placed upon the table, preferably with the rail 16 extending directly toward the passenger. The latter thereupon dips his lingersintothe. bowl 4:, now containing simply water, and in so doing he can rest one of his wrists upon the surface 9. Neither the rolling of a seagoing vessel nor the jerking or swerving motions of a railway car can overturn the device, which has for reasons above explained suflicient stability to maintain its position, even in case the operator is moreor less careless in his own movements.

I do not limit myself to the. precise mechanism shown, as variations may be made therein without departing from my invention, the scope of which is commensurate with my claims. Y

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is as follows e I 1. A bowl with a wrist support, comprising a bowl provided witha base portion for partially supporting the same,said bowl being further provided with a portion extending radially outward from it and fashioned into a supporting rail, said supporting rail being provided with downwardly extending portions whereby it is supported, saiddownwardly extending portions being spaced apart.

2. A bowl with a wrist support, comprising a bowl member provided with a sup-v porting portion, a rail connected with said bowl and extending outwardly therefrom, said rail at its outer end being provided with a pail, of supporting. feet spaced apart, said supporting feet and the said supporting portion'of said bowl togther constituting a three-point suspension.

3. A device of the character described comprising a bowli provided with a. base port-ion upon which it may be partially supported, said bowl being further provided with a rail extending outwardly-from it and having" a concave surface for supporting the wrist of a person using the bowl, said rail being further provided with downwardly extending portions spaced apart and serving'as a supporting base. I i 41. A deviceof the character described comprising a bowl, a rail connected with said bowlv and extending radially outward therefrom, said rail being provided with a con cave surface for supporting the wrist of a person using the bowl, and being further provided with a pair ofhips and with a pair effect connected with said hipsa'nd extending downwardly therefrom, said feet beingispacedaparta a 4 5. A' device of the character described, comprising a bowl providedwith' a base portion for engaging a supporting surface, said bowl being "further provided with a rail integral with it and extending outwardly from it, said rail having a concave surface.

for supporting the wrist of a person using the bowl, said rail being further provided with downwardly extending portions coacting with said vbase portion for supportingsaid bowl and saidrail. v

Signed at, New York city, in the county of New York and State of New York, this 10th day of October, 1927. v

' I I JOSE-PH BR'UECK. 

